Gabe Newell, the co-founder and managing director of Valve, said today that Linux is the future of gaming despite the minuscule share of the market it has today.

That seems hard to believe, given that Newell acknowledged Linux gaming generally accounts for less than one percent of the market by any measure including players, player minutes, and revenue. But Valve is going to do its best to make sure Linux becomes the future of gaming by extending its Steam distribution platform to hardware designed for living rooms.

You will know that Gabe Newel a point. It's the gaming on the living room is their target. They have the steam box(in dev) for the living room. Linux's current market share is not a problem, people will buy a STEAM box because games written on it will run everywhere, not only on the steam box. While MS and Sony's console are locked down black boxes. Again, Linux desktop's market share is not a problem. It's the Linux-powered steam box that will conquer the living room.